The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1) (Royal Marine Reacts)

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  @tardlord4725 · 4 years ago

  Funny enough, general McClellan actually did say "I didn't lose! I merely failed to win!" after his campaign.

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  @boombalatty2161 · 4 years ago

  You go, “I’ll probably split these into 15 min parts” i check the time to see it’s a 40 min video. I love it

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  @cheeseninja1115 · 4 years ago

  One interesting thing to note is how at the start of the war the north mostly saw slavery as an economic issue. This was because most never had actually seen it and by the end of the war the young men that actually went south and fought and saw the horrors of true slavery changed there minds and supported Lincolns abolishianism

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  @stingingcashew2321 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact about the Iron Clads: Two of them fought to a stalemate in one battle where both ships ran out of ammo and did no damage to each other.

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  @FauxFace · 4 years ago (edited)

  When you mentioned that it was crazy how quickly they formed an army, it was because Before World War One, there was no standing unified army. It was essentially every state would have their own army that would fight under the banner of the republic during war time. This was why there were often armies in this war called thing like “The Massachusetts 2nd” or “The Texas Fifth Regiment” because they were formed by a state by state basis

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  @masterlegogamer5350 · 4 years ago

  When you travel down to Virginia, visit some of the battle sites because they are all over the state. I’ve lived here for several years and moved 3 times and have always had a battle site, skirmish, or encampment within 15 miles

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  @famguy292 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Charles Sumner (the senator who was hit with a cane) was really a man ahead of his time. He spent his entire career fighting not only for an end to slavery, but also an end to exclusionary immigration laws, an end to imperialism, advocated for women’s rights, and tried to pass a civil rights bill a full 80 years before the country finally got around to implementing one. Most of his contemporaries shunned his efforts at granting full land ownership and voting rights to the newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. A shame he’s only remembered for being hit with a cane.

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  @RiverRoth · 4 years ago

  A quote I find incredibly interesting when talking about John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry was one from Frederick Douglass: "His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was a taper light, his was the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave"

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  @trentonpepito · 4 years ago

  I like how he says “ what would happen if “we” didn’t win this war?” Glad to see that you are fully embracing American patriotism, we love to see it❤️

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  @dominicsmith7216 · 4 years ago

  Don't forget that Abe was slaying vampires behind the scenes of all this👌

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  @ericbrown621 · 4 years ago

  Love your reaction, but I think you missed the idea of what they meant by economic issue.  The people worried about it economically were already dirt poor farmers in the north who didn't have slaves and were worried about their land getting bought out by rich plantation owners, leaving them both dirt poor and then homeless.  Like another comment said, they also had almost no idea about the details of slavery, most never travelling outside their small towns and information coming slowly if it came at all.  The quote "never attribute to malice what you can to ignorance" is very fitting for this.

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  @annapowell9203 · 4 years ago

  Part of the reason Lincoln didn't enact the emancipation proclamation right away was because Maryland was on the fence about which side they wanted to be on. He was compromising with them and trying not to have DC, and himself, surrounded by the enemy if Maryland flipped.

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